Herodotus
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The Amazons via BBC Radio 4 Here’s the tease for this one: Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Amazons, a tribe of formidable female warriors first described in Greek literature. They appear in the Homeric epics and were described by Herodotus, and featured prominently in the decoration of Greek vases and public buildings. In…
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Adrienne Mayor ponders the Herodotean tale over at Wonders and Marvels: Flying Snakes in Ancient Egypt?
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This is one of those stories that aggravates me greatly because it seems to provide a ‘scientific’ corroboration for something in Herodotus, and so the evidence of such corroboration would be interesting, but instead the vast majority of the media reports concentrate on ‘implications’ (i.e. it happened 2500 years ago, so it might happen again!).…
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